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" Distributive politics at play in Harare, Zimbabwe: "
Innocent Chirisa, Elmond Bandauko, Nyasha Takawira Mutsindikwa, et al.
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AL
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1065629
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LA109258
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10.1186/s40728-015-0015-9
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English
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Elmond Bandauko
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Innocent Chirisa
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Nyasha Takawira Mutsindikwa
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Distributive politics at play in Harare, Zimbabwe: [Article] : case for housing cooperatives\ Innocent Chirisa, Elmond Bandauko, Nyasha Takawira Mutsindikwa, et al.
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Leiden: Brill
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Bandung
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2015
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2/1
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1–13
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This paper is a case in distributive politics (and hinges on land-based power dynamics) arguing that in the absence of state capacity to provide for housing, housing cooperatives have emerged and controlled largely by patronage. In this case, there is exclusion of those individuals, households and families not politically connected; and this has deep and undesired consequences in the management of urban areas in the end. In the Greater Harare urban (and peri-urban) landscape, the housing cooperatives have the power to control their members with respect to the contributions that each member can make in terms of finance and sweat equity (labor). Nevertheless, land as a resource remains a prerogative of the state, which the ZANU PF regime has controlled for a span of more than 30 years now. Housing cooperatives in Harare, as elsewhere in the country, try to identify with ZANU PF as a party identifying with conservativism enshrined in the existing laws (albeit the New Constitution that came about in 2013) and a party advocating for equity in the distribution of the land. Cooperatives have become a tool in which ZANU PF has re-asserted its influence and hegemony. This paper is a case in distributive politics (and hinges on land-based power dynamics) arguing that in the absence of state capacity to provide for housing, housing cooperatives have emerged and controlled largely by patronage. In this case, there is exclusion of those individuals, households and families not politically connected; and this has deep and undesired consequences in the management of urban areas in the end. In the Greater Harare urban (and peri-urban) landscape, the housing cooperatives have the power to control their members with respect to the contributions that each member can make in terms of finance and sweat equity (labor). Nevertheless, land as a resource remains a prerogative of the state, which the ZANU PF regime has controlled for a span of more than 30 years now. Housing cooperatives in Harare, as elsewhere in the country, try to identify with ZANU PF as a party identifying with conservativism enshrined in the existing laws (albeit the New Constitution that came about in 2013) and a party advocating for equity in the distribution of the land. Cooperatives have become a tool in which ZANU PF has re-asserted its influence and hegemony.
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Control
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Governance
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Homelessness
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Housing land
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Manipulation
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Social capital
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State capacity
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10.1186/s40728-015-0015-9
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